A pre-concert press conference was an hour late in starting, but more than 50 Mexican journalists kept busy chatting and sampling some of the refreshments left over from a previous meeting at the Hotel W in Mexico City. Five Latin pop stars would soon be in the same room at the same time. Never had they appeared in public together.

The judges were especially gushing last night over two Berklee Canta en Español contestants, Daniel Dayz and Joel Waldman. After a too-long and overly dramatic buildup from the TV hosts (one has to assume this was all for the cameras) it was revealed…